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One Step Closer
The Alpine trilogy are three of the European Alps’ hardest multipitches; each of them put up by a legend of the era. “Silbergeier” (8b/+, 7c+, 8a+, 7a+, 8b+, 7c+) – Beat Kammerlander “End of Silence” (7a+, 6c+, 6a+, 6a, 7b+, 7c+, 7b, 8b, 8b+, 7c+, 7a+) – Thomas Huber “Des Kaiser Neue Kleider” (6c, 7c+, 8a+, 7b+, 8b+, […] -
Tre Cime - 3 in a Day
Climbing began in the mountains; but over the years as climbers strived to better themselves, improve and explore new styles, climbing itself evolved, changed and became an all encompassing term for so many things. Today, climbing is not just on mountains; it’s at crags and on boulders. It’s on rock, ice and plastic. It’s even […] -
Gear Geekery
Gear Geekery… Whether you’re boulderers arguing about whether you like your Friction Labs chalk chunky or dusty; Trad climbers battling over whether Totems are superior to the new BD Camalot Lights; or Big Wallers painstakingly weighing the entirety of their haul bag to lose every excess gram possible; we’re all SUPER GEEKS when it comes to […] -
Maybe its time for a “real” holiday?
I’ve not written a blog in quite some time… Why? Emmmmm… because I’ll admit; it’s hard balancing training, work and travel; then writing about it all at the end of the day (which is again… more work). Writing has always been something that has come fairly natural to me. I’m not really sure if I’m conventionally “good” […] -
Yosemite - A lesson on Granite
"AGHHHHHHHH!!!! What is happening? I can't hold on!? It's IMPOSSIBLE! How on earth do you do this!?" This was my first experience of Yosemite cracks... The second experience was much the same. And the third. And so forth... I've spent the last 10 years of my life dedicated to getting better at climbing. In the beginning it was on […] -
“Bellavista” - Where it all started…
We travelled back to the Dolomites after a break in the bad weather would allow us to have a bit more time working the crux pitch. We had only had 2 days on the route so far and it had already seemed very possible to free climb, however the prospect of doing the whole route […] -
“Punks in the Gym” - The Australian Story
“Punks in the Gym” is the iconic Australian rock climb... It was a bolted by a local Australian climber and freed by the legendary Wolfgang Gullich in the mid 80’s becaming the world’s first climb graded f8b+/32 which at the time made it the hardest rock climb in the world! I first heard about it from […] -
The Art of Projecting and Climbing Development
Hey Guys! I have just completed my first project in Spain! I am so happy right now, I have been falling from the last move loads of times over the past couple of days and have been getting rather frustrated at the continual denial with the chains so close in sight, but I suppose I wouldn’t […]
